Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] british [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not content with being obsessive about failed British pop performers like Belouis Some and Matt Fretton ( who , as they will always tell you , were ‘ big in Japan ’ ) , these star victims get all steamed up about their own home-grown talent-free singers , which the record companies churn out year after year . |
| 2 | For hard-up British Rail plan to increase fares by as much as 8.5 per cent on those lines with modern carriages and good punctuality records . |
| 3 | A one season bag is for typical British summer use , when night temperatures are at their highest . |
| 4 | Schools have shown increasing interest in it , helped by such excellent organisations as the Institute for Contemporary British History , but there is limited room in the curriculum for the twentieth century , let alone for the period from when the text books end and memory begins . |
| 5 | The films had a sense of urgency that the rest of mainstream British cinema at the time largely lacked , but their directors did n't have enough personal contact with the lives of their characters to offer visions that rang true . |
| 6 | The post carries a tax-free salary of £140,000 , but it would put Mr Patten out of mainstream British politics for five years . |
| 7 | This is n't another beautifully executed US import — it 's a slab of classic British hokum , and there 's nothing LA Gear can do about it . |
| 8 | In the saddle Simon Goodman , the man who 's spent every waking hour of the last 2 and a half years creating a machine to recapture the excitement of classic British motorcycling . |
| 9 | A star of the chess world at just ten Jay Stockham is already a star in the world of junior British chess and he is only ten . |
| 10 | Children naturally go through so many changes during these critical years and we have no history of solid British tennis achievement from which to draw patterns , norms and conclusions . |
| 11 | The assumptions of total British dependence on the USA with which the Clark memoirs show successive British Governments operating in the aftermath of World War II and which were pleaded as necessitating the climb-down in November 1956 were already undergoing an examination which 1956 only accelerated . |
| 12 | THE ORIGINS AND GROWTH OF HOME-GROWN BRITISH EXECUTIVE SEARCH |
| 13 | Staring out of the carriage window at the dismal , wind-torn countryside , a plastic cup of weak British Rail coffee untouched in front of her , she brooded non-stop all the way to London . |
| 14 | The flexibility achieved by extending worker responsibilities and enlarging job cycles reduces idle machine time , the factor identified by Ford 's management as the main cause of low British labour and capital productivity compared with the company 's continental plants . |
| 15 | THE SALE of state-owned British Technology Group to a consortium led by its management and staff has been completed . |
| 16 | This invests on behalf of a number of British and American pension funds , including those of state-owned British Coal and of the United Nations . |
| 17 | It is also true , of course , that these doctors ' free services were given partly for research and clinical experience , partly from strictly charitable motives and partly to establish marketable reputations in the private sector of pre-NHS British medicine . |
| 18 | We contacted renowned Höfner user and one of the fathers of popular British guitar , Bert Weedon , to give us his thoughts on the instrument . |
| 19 | Last November , Collins launched its ‘ Plus 20 ’ series of contemporary British music on CD singles at £4.99 for a playing time of around 30 minutes , and this January they too entered the mid-price arena with ‘ Quest ’ , a new digital label at only £6.99 — DDD Ambisonic masters using 20 bit technology . |
| 20 | Against this rather uneasy background of changing critical perceptions , the museum opens ‘ New Displays 1993 ’ on 3 February , although the new arrangement of several galleries , including an exhibition of nine works of contemporary British art given by Charles Saatchi , was completed in mid-December . |
| 21 | The British Council and the Arts Council have also bought his works and one of his larger studies , Chain measuring 100inches x 80inches , is owned by Cleveland county council which , he says , has one of the best collections of contemporary British art in the country . |
| 22 | Rex and Tomlinson 's ( 1979 ) study of Handsworth in Birmingham was undertaken with the intention of discovering something of the relationship of Asian and West Indian immigrants and their children to the class structure of contemporary British society . |
| 23 | The family is the fundamental unit of contemporary British Society . |
| 24 | When taken together , these amount to a large part of one of the dominant interests of contemporary British society : the professional middle class . |
| 25 | Trust in one 's fellow countrymen remains a significant feature of contemporary British society . |
| 26 | Of the many strange and frightening features of contemporary British life , none carries a more obvious and direct threat than the growing phenomenon of squatting . |
| 27 | This brief survey not only provides some historical depth to an understanding of contemporary British government — its structure , responsibilities , and political dominance — it also serves to reinforce our grasp of the political culture and to provide in part an explanation for some of the problems now associated with government . |
| 28 | It is against this background that the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) has made a timely and substantial grant to the British Library of Political and Economic Science ( BLPES ) , working in conjunction with the Institute of Contemporary British History , to conduct a major survey of just this area . |
| 29 | Instincts , the individual and the state : The case of contemporary British politics . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , it is possible to provide a brief but structured sketch that furthers our understanding of contemporary British politics . |